Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:51:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates | From | Alexander Graf <> |
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Hi Jason,
On 20.06.23 13:28, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mo, 19.06.23 22:30, Jason A. Donenfeld (Jason@zx2c4.com) wrote: > >> Like the other patch, and as discussed before too, I don't think this >> has any business being part of (virtual) hardware drivers, and instead >> belongs in random.c, which might receive these notifications from a >> variety of devices, and can thus synchronize things accordingly. >> Please stop posting more of these same approaches. Same nack as the >> other ones. > Note the intended usecase for this in userspace really has nothing to > do with RNGs. We just want an event that is generated when a machine > is duplicated so that we can request a new DHCP lease, and similar. I > don't see any relationship to random.c for that.
Checking up on this conversation. The intended use case has nothing to do with RNG - we merely need a notification for system level user space that a system clone operation happened so it can act on it.
Please consider taking the patch as is or advise on how to proceed to address this non-RNG use case.
Thanks,
Alex
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